Chatting in an im group, Entering an im group, Defining your screen name for a group chat – Nokia 9300 User Manual
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the list of search results, select a group name in your Inactive list. You cannot join a group that you already have active. To join
a group that is not listed in the left frame, select
Join new group
. To create a new group, select
Create group
.
Chatting in an IM group
To participate in an IM group chat, press Menu, select
View
>
Groups
, an IM group, and
Join
>
Open
. When you successfully join
an IM group chat, the active group chat view is displayed. The left frame is a list of groups that you have created, joined, or
bookmarked. The top frame is a conversation viewer with text of the group chat, and the bottom frame is a message editor
where you type text to participate in the group chat. In the active group chat view, the most common actions are to send an
IM message, to whisper to another IM group member, to invite another IM contact to join the group chat, or to leave the IM group.
Sending a message to the group - To send a message to the group during an active group chat, select the message editor, type
a message, and
Send
.
Whispering during a group chat - To whisper to another user during an active group chat, select a name in the
Conversations
folder in the left frame and
Whisper
.
Inviting a contact during a group chat - To invite a contact to an active group chat, select a name in the
Online contacts
folder
in the left frame, and
Invite
.
Leaving a group chat - To leave an active group chat, select
End
.
To participate in several active group chats at the same time, select
Switch convers.
Entering an IM group
To enter a group ID when you join an IM group for the first time, press Menu, select
View
>
Groups
>
Join new group
. Type a
group ID up to 50 characters in the format specified by your IM service, and select
OK
. A group ID may be in the format wv:
Defining your screen name for a group chat
To identify yourself for an IM group chat, press Menu, select
View
>
Groups
, press Menu, and select
Tools
>
Preferences
>
Screen name
. By default, your user name appears to others in an IM group chat.
Select from the following:
• In a group — to select a type of name to identify you to a group. Your user name, a unique name that identifies you to the
IM service, cannot be changed.
• Screen name — to type a screen name up to 10 characters.
Creating an IM group
To create an IM group, press Menu in the groups main view, and select
Create group
. Type a name for the group and invite at
least one person to create the group. After you create a group, you can view the group properties and edit the group default
values.
Inviting several IM users to a group chat
The
Invitations
list is a master list of IM users to invite to a group chat. No one is invited to join a group chat until the invitations
are sent.
To invite a friend to a group chat, select
Invite friend
from the active group chat view. An
Invitations
list of IM users who have
been invited to participate is displayed. The list may identify users by IM user ID or personal screen name. Select
Invite
contact
to select users from your contact list or
Invite other
to add another user to the list. When the list of invitations is complete,
select
Send
.
Inviting your contacts to a group chat
You can invite someone on your contact list to participate in a group chat.
To select IM users from your contact list to invite to a group chat, select
Invite friend
from an active group chat, view the
Invitations
list, select
Invite contact
, scroll to an IM user in the
Invite online contact
list, and select
Mark
. When the list of IM users
to invite from your contact list is complete, select
Done
to return to the master
Invitations
list.
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